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Yahoo Dropping Google Search
According to a Wall Street Journal report, Yahoo! is expected to drop Google as the primary search technology on its site within a few months....
Google Tests Book Search
“Google’s mission is to provide access to all the world’s information and make it universally useful and accessible. It turns out that not all the...
Local search advertising to reach $2.5 billion in 2008
Local paid search advertising is on pace to generate $2.5 billion in 2008, according to a new research report. In a study expected to be...
Business Users Prefer Organic Results to Search Engine Advertising
A recent survey of business users and their search behavior conducted by WebAdvantage.net, a search engine marketing and interactive agency, reveals that members of the...
Search Advertising Blocker Threatens WebMasters in Addition to Search Engines
First we had spam filters, then pop-up blockers, and recently spyware removal tools have become popular. Time to add one more to the list which...
Open-Source Search Engine : Nutch
A group of international developers are working together to produce an open source search engine that may rival the commercial search bandits. From the Nutch...
Stemming and the new Google Update
Search Engine Watch’s Danny Sullivan looks into the reasons why some sites have lost their Google search engine rankings after the new Google update. Reasons...
Future of WebSite Ranking
ExactSeek’s Mel Strocen takes a look into Google’s new update, the future of website ranking, and obstacles of judging the popularity of a website in...
Google’s New Search Algorithm- SEO people up in arms
It’s a retailer’s worst nightmare heading into the week before one of the biggest shopping days of the year: losing advertisements. Bambi Francisco looks into...
Shopping Search Engine Advertising
Shopping Search Engines Shopping-specific search is growing in popularity. A ComScore study shows that shopping search and comparison engines attracted 33 million unique visitors in...
Pay Per Click Search Engines
Does it Pay to Pay? Pay Per Click Search Engine Marketing Getting listed and FOUND in search engines is not as easy as it used...
Google’s Update Drop Your Site? Here’s the Info
Barry Lloyd explores the new Google Update (which he dubs “Florida”) and why some sites have been dropped from their multi-year rankings: With the huge...
Google IPO and Google’s Future
An upcoming cover story in FORTUNE magazine reveals internal disarray at Google, and raises troubling questions about the company’s future. The story comes out as...
LookSmart and BellSouth Team for Local Search
LookSmart, a global leader in search, and BellSouth, a leader in print and Internet Yellow Pages in the Southeast US, today announced an agreement designed...
Google Link Spam Filter
Google recently introduced a new keyword phrase filter during its most recent update. Some phrases were unchanged, but many highly optimized and highly competitive phrases...
Local Search, Multimedia Search Added to AOL
Looking to add to its search features and perhaps expand into the search engine world dominated by Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft, AOL announced today its...
Bill Gates – Microsoft Never Talked to Google
In this USAToday article, Bill Gates claims that Microsoft never talked to Google about acquiring the search monster. Microsoft has not had merger discussions with...
Shopping Search Engines Perfected by Google and Ask
Ask Jeeves and Google have dived into the Shopping Search Engine front, joining Yahoo, MSN, and other Shopping Search sites like Shopping.com, BizRate, and MySimon....
Microsoft Search Worries Google and Yahoo
Microsoft Search Engine worries Google and Yahoo With 3.3 billion searches conducted every month in the U.S., and a lucrative advertising market swelling to $1.6...
Keyword Ownership: What is It and Where is it Headed?
A number of such services regularly email me offering keyword ownership of premium keywords for $300/year. They say that anyone can type the keyword I...
Localized Search – The Future of Internet Yellow Pages
In the U.S. there are an estimated 10 million small businesses yet only 250,000 are currently participating in paid search. The question at hand is...
LookSmart Listings Waives Fee with Holiday Program
LookSmart is waiving its $29 account set up fee for the holiday season. One of the top web directories, it has had a hard time...
Ask Jeeves Adds Smart Shopping Search
Ask Jeeves Adds Smart Shopping Search Ask Jeeves, Inc. today announced the addition of Smart Search(SM) for Products to Ask.com, the latest in a series...
Google IPO is Evil
Ensight’s Jeremy Wright takes the diabolical angle on Google’s IPO Rumors in his piece, Google IPO is Evil. Here’s a clip.
How Much is Google Worth?
You don’t need a search engine to find opinions about this topic: How much Google would command if it were to go through with a...
SEO: Paths & Security
I work for a decent-sized international charity as the Director of IS / IT. One of our bigger projects this year has been redoing our...
Be Systematic
There are loads of rules for Search Engine Optimization (SEO). Things like “Use metatags” (or: don’t use metatags), “don’t use frames”, “use text links wherever...
Local search: the next big thing in pay per click
Local search: the next big thing in pay per click This month Overture announced a trial of their technology for local pay per click search...
WebAdvantage.net Adds Four New Search Engine Marketing Clients
WebAdvantage.net (http://www.webadvantage.net), a full-service emarketing agency, announces that the acquisition of four new search engine marketing clients: Zurich North America, NatureMade’s Vitamin Herb University, Science...
How to get your site into DMOZ (Netscape Open Directory)
How to get your site into DMOZ Everyone talks about getting their site listed in the Open Directory Project, better known as DMOZ, but not...